I try to photograph what can’t be photographed – psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
BARBARA ESS
BARBARA ESS
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Barbara Ess4 quotes“I try to photograph what can’t be photographed – psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.”
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Reality… includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions – [which] a normal camera tends to omit.
Barbara EssBarbara Ess When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth – sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Barbara EssBarbara Ess …I use primal imagery, so maybe it’s fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there’s no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise – as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.
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